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Thread ID: 150464	2022-02-07 23:53:00	AIRNZ rant	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

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1484175	2022-02-07 23:53:00	So I left on plane for Napier on MOnday afternoon. We get here and pilots announce can't land as they can't see out the window and are therefore returning to Auckland. (I found out much later, that there is no instrument land at Napier airport). Still, why not land at Palmerston Nth, Gisborne, or some such and bus from there? Anyway told to get bags and go to counter 1. Join queue and when I finally get to counter, told to join queue 2. Handed hand written note saying new flight next day. And he walks away, not answering my query about how do I go about getting the checking thing, bag tags and so on... Join q1 again, she says, no sorry I need to see guy (that just left). What do I do now I ask? Go home she says. Er...Napier is home I say. Oh she says - in amazement that everyone doesn't live in Auckland and are not catching planes to holiday... Get a hotel she says, catch taxi and find one. I say no money, she says well you should have been prepared and it's not our fault and we only help if it is. I say what if tomorrow same weather I ask, she says oh we don't discuss future events. A number of others unpacked and settled in on the floor. Next day I go to counter hand my note over...whats this Im asked, why haven't I got a proper flight printout I,m asked, I should have got this yesterday they say... Er...yes. And also the number of air stewards that ARKS you to be careful exiting plane... Rant over...	piroska (17583)
1484176	2022-02-08 00:35:00	AirNZ domestic is crap, because there's no competition. Air NZ international isn't, because there is. Appatrently I'm meant to be proud of my national airline. Bollocks to that. If I ever get to travel international it won't be with them, because I'll remember how domestic treated me.	allblack (6574)
1484177	2022-02-08 03:25:00	Sounds like the kind of service you'd expect at some backwater airport in a poverty stricken African nation!	Agent_24 (57)
1484178	2022-02-08 04:43:00	So I left on plane for Napier on MOnday afternoon. We get here and pilots announce can't land as they can't see out the window and are therefore returning to Auckland. (I found out much later, that there is no instrument land at Napier airport). Still, why not land at Palmerston Nth, Gisborne, or some such and bus from there? Anyway told to get bags and go to counter 1. Join queue and when I finally get to counter, told to join queue 2. Handed hand written note saying new flight next day. And he walks away, not answering my query about how do I go about getting the checking thing, bag tags and so on... Join q1 again, she says, no sorry I need to see guy (that just left). What do I do now I ask? Go home she says. Er...Napier is home I say. Oh she says - in amazement that everyone doesn't live in Auckland and are not catching planes to holiday... Get a hotel she says, catch taxi and find one. I say no money, she says well you should have been prepared and it's not our fault and we only help if it is. I say what if tomorrow same weather I ask, she says oh we don't discuss future events. A number of others unpacked and settled in on the floor. Next day I go to counter hand my note over...whats this Im asked, why haven't I got a proper flight printout I,m asked, I should have got this yesterday they say... Er...yes. And also the number of air stewards that ARKS you to be careful exiting plane... Rant over... The old join the far queue trick	prefect (6291)
1484179	2022-02-08 19:50:00	Well points that they didn't try landing.....it's why AirNZ isn't featured in AIrCrash docos much. Bit lame some airports - Napier, who is spending money making it pretty apparently - don't think to have equipment to guide planes in though. It was more the assumptions by staff, we all live in Akld, we are all having some holiday..... And the ARKS thing, it annoys me when I hear that. All these well dressed, tattoo hidden staff and they then say ARKS. Heaps of them.	piroska (17583)
1484180	2022-02-08 21:53:00	Bet you're glad they didn't arks you if you have covis...	Agent_24 (57)
1484181	2022-02-09 04:10:00	piroska, you should have posted this on a world site and this would have curtailed all those tourists' from coming here. After the Aussie PM spouting off sbout opening the borders to all double vacinated o/s tourists, one supposes Jacinda will follow suit. Just when the world is making a hit on global warming toooo, no planes no cruise ships woow. Letter to the editor in this morning's The Press about tourist nos'. lurking.	Lurking (218)
1484182	2022-02-09 04:28:00	We have travelled on quite a few different overseas airlines and the one we found the best was Cathay Pacific. They were great with our children when they were toddlers. Our next preference was Air NZ followed closely by Lufthansa. We were very impressed with Air NZ and their hosties. We thought that they were very good. And on one of our trips to the UK we flew on a few different airlines and it was great to fly the last leg on Air NZ and hear the familiar tones of a Kiwi accent. It was terrific.:clap	Roscoe (6288)
1484183	2022-02-10 04:43:00	Bet you're glad they didn't arks you if you have covis... Actually, the checkin machine requires you to scan the pass. No-one else cared except the bar shop.......I go a tea there....and they wanted to scan it.	piroska (17583)
1484184	2022-02-10 04:44:00	piroska, you should have posted this on a world site and this would have curtailed all those tourists' from coming here. . Well.....it was Domestic, not international. Anyway this does show up in Google if you really want to search such things	piroska (17583)
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